Alex Blog: 01/06

Tuesday, January 31, 2006

9X Media - FAQs

It's amazing -- LCD display wall and made in the USA. I am wondering USA actually produce LCD panel.

My guess wall street must have a lot of LCD walls.

SeaMonkey Releases

 I just downloaded a zip version of SeaMonkey and opened it, but it didn't seem to accept cookies. By the way, that interface is just too old.

Thursday, January 26, 2006

OSNews.com

People reporting 10.4.4 were buggy.

No wonder the other day I opened IE on MAC, none of links counld be clicked. At that moment, I thought Apple really forced people to use Safari.

Tuesday, January 24, 2006

The W3C Markup Validation Service

Today, first time I put my web page into w3c validator. Not to mention countless errors.

But, I have to two fundamental errors :

1, In web page I have

meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"

, but apache send out utf-8 encoding in the responding header.

2, Unencoded ampersands in URL

Link like href="q?p=welcome&id=" was failed.

According to http://www.htmlhelp.com/tools/validator/problems.html#amp

, it should be href="q?p=welcome&amp;id="

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I probably watch not much TV. I know craigslist classification and go to Whole Foods a lot, but I just don't know Lance Armstrong.

IEBlog : For the SELECT few...

First, I am wondering how many peoples are working on IE?

As to SELECT (MS combobox), it's most buggy object in IE.

Now, they have windowless fix. The other problems I have :

1, OPTION style sheet support.

2, If a LABEL object is associated with SELECT. Click this LABEL, then the related SELECT get focus. Unfortunately, the SELECT always select the first item.

3, Use style sheet to set a small size to SELECT object. When drop down pop up, the longer item OPTIONs will be cut off.

Thursday, January 19, 2006

printfire()

Just like inline output from Firebug extension.

printfire("hellow world");

It's much easier than standout output "dump".So, no more alert(), no more dump() for debuging.

There is no way to use IE as my default development environment.

Mozilla Update :: Extensions -- More Info:FireBug - All Releases

It's much better than console2. Nice UI. My favorite part is js error indicator. This is very useful. I don't need to keep my js error console opening.

Bug 184968 - Implement Sidebar tab similar to "Page Holder" function in Mac IE 5

I like IE5/MAC showing tool tab on the left side of window. AOL Explorer has this kind of feature, too.

jEdit is my favorite java editor. It has this kind of feature. I can hide all add on tools on the side panel and reserver the main window for the file I am working on.

Tuesday, January 17, 2006

Surfin’ Safari » Blog Archive » Introducing the Web Inspector

It's much better and useful than Firefox DOM Inspector.

Web inspector

Giraffe

I heard once giraffle's head hit the ground. That's over.

Monday, January 16, 2006

Apache HTTP Server Project

Apache released 2.2 in the early of December 2005. The feature list is excited. It has Tomecat load balancer.

But, So far, I don't see window binary distribution. By the way, what's is "Apache Portable Runtime (APR)"? It's sort of virtual Machine like Java.

Friday, January 13, 2006

Music stops for Mac Windows Media Player | CNET News.com

Great news for mac. MS always offer their softwar into other platform differently, not full features. By the way, it's not for sale. It's better to kill it.

Thursday, January 12, 2006

Bug 160162 - MARQUEE loop property not supported

This other day, I tried to implement alert message (like system tray -- show, then come down to hide) with marquee tag. Sooner, I realized Firefox didn't support loop attribute.

Wednesday, January 11, 2006

I just implemented a method to get innerText. It's for a complicated document.

function ccGetMZInnerText(element) {

var innerText = "";
if (element.hasChildNodes()) {

var displayType = window.getComputedStyle(element,null).getPropertyValue("display");
if (displayType != null && displayType!="none") {
for (var i = 0; i <>
if (element.tagName=="P") innerText = "\n" + innerText;
innerText = innerText + ccGetMZInnerText( element.childNodes[i] );
}
if (displayType!="inline") innerText = innerText + "\n";
}

} else {

if ( element.nodeType == 3 ) {// text
innerText = innerText + ccTextCorrection(element.nodeValue);
} else if (element.nodeType == 1) { //object
var displayType = window.getComputedStyle(element,null).getPropertyValue("display");
if (displayType == null || displayType=="none") {
} else if (displayType=="inline") {
innerText = innerText + ccTextCorrection(element.textContent);
if (element.tagName=="BR") innerText = innerText + "\n";
} else {
innerText = innerText + ccTextCorrection(element.textContent) + "\n";
}
}

}

return innerText;

}

function ccTextCorrection(fooString) { //replace to blank, and remove line break.
return fooString.replace(/ /g, " ").replace(/\n/g, "").replace(/\r/g, "");
}

Web Applications 1.0 - ping

Ping -- it's interested attribute for hyper link (A). Firefox just have it. Is this good for tracking system? Got to find a good use case.

Tuesday, January 10, 2006

Surfin’ Safari » Blog Archive » WebKit is now in Subversion

Recently, just migrated from VSS to CVS, and felt a lot of pain.  So far I got WinCVS the best, but the interface was still hard to use.  I did't see a way to get server log automatically. Like editor, I had to select a file to see it. I would like to see every file editor when folder was changed.

Anyway, people is migrated to subversion, not sure what's the advantage.

Friday, January 06, 2006

FAQTs - Knowledge Base - View Entry - How do I emulate innerText in mozilla/gecko/NS6+ ?

I through this was fast way to do innerText for Firefox. Unfortunately, this was only good for a paragraph. It did not skip STYLE, SCRIPT tags. DIV need a line break. There are lot more comlicated to handle line break.

Blogger: Create your Blog Now -- FREE

I have Blogger Web Comments extension installed in my Firefox. Most of time is disable, but I will enable it to see others' comments. I was just curious how google know those comments from. As I played more, I believed those comments were from blog search result. Now, my question how google decide a blog page?

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